The occupation war and resistance in iraq i thought this book lived up to all the reviews i had read about it in various magazines for anyone who is interested in facts not fiction about the us occupation of iraq this book will more than suffice. In march 2003 patrick cockburn secretly crossed the tigris river from syria into iraq just before the us british invasion and has covered the war ever since in the occupation he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil and the dangers and privations endured by its people. The occupation war and resistance in iraq is a personal record arising out of cockburns frequent visits as a journalist to iraq before and during the war but it takes in many other experiences. The occupation war and resistance in iraq patrick cockburns latest book the occupation war and resistance in iraq opens with the following words it has been the strangest war it had hardly begun in 2003 when president george w bush announced on may 1 that it was over the american mission had been accomplished